Location: Remote
Duration: 05 Months
Pay Rate: $82.00 - $92.00/- on W2
Pre Screening Questionnaire:
- Please list city/state.
-Do they have reliable internet at home?
-Do they have a quiet place to work at home remotely?
-Do they have insights experience with Retail and/or Client? How many years?
-Person needs to be experienced qualitative and quantitative research professional. Do they possess these skills?
Kindly share your most updated resume, including the details of Pre Screening Questionnaire as above.
Roles and Responsibilities:
This position will act as a dedicated insights partner to Merchandising, responsible for:
• Addressing merchant driven category and subcategory insight questions
• Mining and synthesizing insights from Simile, Mintel, and Kantar
• Translating research into clear, concise, decision ready insights
• Serving as a subject matter expert in consumer research and category strategy
A core responsibility of this role would be creating and managing category specific agent banks within Simile, including:
• Category and subcategory buyers
• CVS store brand buyers, explicitly modeled alongside competitive store brands
• Competitive private label buyers where available
These agent banks would enable:
• Consistent evaluation of CVS store brands relative to competitors
• Faster, more scalable category insights
• Deeper understanding of store brand choice drivers and trade offs at a category level
This capability does not exist today and represents a meaningful step forward in applying AI to merchandising strategy.
Required Qualifications:
• 7+ years of relevant experience - plan, analyze, and provide successful qualitative and quantitative customer research across a variety of methodologies that meets partner goals, including strong analytical skills.
• A strategic mindset with an ability to connect insights across a variety of data sources
• Compelling communication and storytelling skills
• Independent program management skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively across internal team members, collaborators and vendor partners
• Role may require occasional travel (?5% of the time)
Preferred Qualifications:
• Prior Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or retail or category experience
• Experience choosing, managing, and working with research vendors, or experience at a market research vendor
• Experience working in a complex organization across a variety of partner groups
• PowerPoint, Word and Excel skills
This role will partner with Merchandising with Category Insights. The will be responsible for the following:
• Mining secondary insights and AI tools to address merchant-driven category and subcategory insights questions
• Developing and executing primary research (both qualitative and quantitative) for category teams
• Plan research agendas in collaboration with business partners
• Familiarity, experience and usage of a range of research methodologies and analysis techniques (focus groups, shop-alongs, ethnographies, MaxDiff, Turf, Monadic testing, etc.)
• Use storytelling to turn insights into a compelling narrative that steers decision makers towards what customers want/need
• Serve as a subject matter expert in consumer research and category strategy
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